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Before I could upgrade mt 3.4 community to IPS4, I had to move to an upgraded server. Migration from one server to the other is totally on me and I have NO idea what I am doing. I have looked extensively for support pages on this, but nothing really lays it out. I am with godaddy and they will do it for $100 but it takes 7 days. Thats a long time to be down. Any help?
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I wish to you use the ips.ui.alert in 'prompt' form. Typically, it looks something like this: It allows users to input some information before clicking 'ok'. My question is; Is it possible to change the input type from a text input to a radio button style input? Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to help me with this.
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Is there a list of tables that can not be imported into an IPS database? I've been trying for days to set up our site on a new server and importing the full database does not work. I've tried not importing the cache tables. I've searched for info on this and can't find that I shouldn't be able to import them all. I'm just stumped. Any help would be much appreciated. I am trying to reset up IPS 3.4.9 so that I can update to 4.1.12.1. My old server did not have the needed php 5.6.
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I've added to and changed so much in my theme. My custom.css is hundreds of lines and I've got tens and tens of edits in the templates themselves. How can I maintain these edits while I update the theme? I heard something about an edits system that tells you what was changed or something- how can I use this?
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Hello, guys. I just want to find how i can reset "Most Downloaded" and "Highest Rated" statistics, because from months are the same files. Want to can give a chance and to another files to go in homepage "Most Downloaded" and "Highest Rated". Any idea what to do? Thanks!
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Hello guys, how i can write TAGS at the topic with capslock, because when I write the tags with capslock they are writed without ( rip english )
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I am trying to set up an additional member group, however when I do so the "social" tab only contains the "reputation" options section - the "profiles", "messages" and other areas are totally missing despite all being present in my existing member groups. When adding a new member group, how do I make these options appear in the 'social' tab for that group ?
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I don't want to collet anyones billing address but I cant seem to find where the setting is to turn this off required fields on checkout. Could someone point me into the right section to do this?
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In my forum I do some events and the awards are some posts that give the AdminCP. But spent a few days and my users "lost" these posts have given the AdminCP, I believe it is because of the function "recount post" some "task" How do I disable it?
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I am trying to get the gallery app to sort the albums in categories alphabetically as default, but can't seem to find the right settings. Help me, please?
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Is there a code that's generated per file created so you can "embed" the download link somewhere else within the site?
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Is it possible to promote a post to an article? I seem to remember seeing this feature somewhere but now I want to use it I can't find it? Thanks, Ben
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[30-May-2016 16:11:52] PHP Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/rebecah/public_html/IPB4/admin/upgrade/index.php on line 14 [30-May-2016 16:11:52] PHP Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/rebecah/public_html/IPB4/admin/upgrade/index.php on line 14 [30-May-2016 16:11:52] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/rebecah/public_html/IPB4/admin/upgrade/index.php on line 14 I think the problem may be my version of PHP.
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How to activate Post preview in 4.1.12.1? I do not see any changes since the upgrade.
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I occasionally use the Sign-in feature in the ACP to test a user's view so that I'm seeing things as they do. It's particularly helpful to take screenshots when showing them how to do stuff. Can I do the same thing somehow to verify / test / troubleshoot ACP setups? If I Sign-in as a member with limited ACP access (say, giving a club secretary access to bulk mail) I can't figure out how to access the ACP as them. If signed in as the user on the front-end choosing AdminCP naturally forces me to log in again, which I can only do as myself (since I don't know or want to know their password). Is it possible to test ACP access from a specific member's perspective?
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Hi all ! Short story: I have a good relationship with another website which do not use IPS. I would like to autogenerate content in my community created by that website. I have their permission to do it. The idea is that they write an article, for example and then they send a copy of that article to my community creating a new thread in one specific forum. They have their own engineer team so I'm not worried about them, I'm more concerned about my IPS community and how to allow them to add that content and open a door. PLAN A: is it possible to add some kind of bot to the IPS administrator board ? Is there any kind of hook that would allow to add info…
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Hey there, Is there anyway to hide all threads from users (The forum option does this), however is it possible to show pinned or featured topics within that forum?
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I have a group of "Past Members" (ones that no longer meet the age restrictions of our forums). They are set to "Can access site?" = No. Is it possible to display a message specifically to this group after a login attempt has been made? We would like to explain why they can't login, and invite them to join the organization (now that they are old enough). If it is possible, how do I do this? Thank you.
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I set up a database, page, etcetera, where I could display a travel guide. All went well until I added the first article. One of the fields I created was for a "teaser" paragraph. When I go into the article listing for the category the article is in, I just see a black line with the words "Teaser Paragraph." When I click on the article title and view the article, the teaser paragraph looks okay, but there is a line under it saying 04/19/2016 04/19/2016 http://www.turkeycentral.com/uploads/ The actual article listing is here: http://www.turkeycentral.com/travel-guide/mediterranean-turkey/alanya/ And the actual article is here: …
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Hi! In VB exist noparsetag, and, sometime, can be more useful! Just now, for example, i've put in quote some text (like example) and i don't have found any way for "no convert" (also : ( converted as smilies). so, request, i've try to make a new button in toolbar for "noparse", but, in realty, i don't have on "how i can make this". and in ckeditor plugin list seems to not exist. someone can help me? edit: i've try with something like this: <input type='text' readonly='readonly' name='nobbc' id='nobbc' value='{content}'> but, for some strange reason, this is the output:
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My "digest" task stalls frequently, but when I run it manually, it goes through in a second. What can I do to stop seeing the warning nearly every time I log in to ACP? I run my tasks with cron and use https throughout my site. Can I run "digest" on a different schedule, or something else to make it work far more often? Because, again, when run manually it works every time. It never hangs when I run it manually.
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I'm running the latest version of IPS4, including Commerce. I've set up a donation (with no set goal amount) and have received three donations. Upon checking the donation, the public facing 'amount raised' total always displays the last donation amount, rather than the whole total. Surely this isn't right? I can find no means of configuring this in the ACP.
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Most of IPS' drop downs have little titles on them. How can I accomplish this? I mean where it says "FEATURE TOUR" above all the others and is unclickable. Side note: If this isn't possible using the menu manager, IPS really should add a "title" option to the menu manager.
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Good morning! I'm an admin for a non-profit that has maintained an Invision forum since 2007. Traffic has peaked and dipped over the years, leaving us with over 680,000 posts floating around. With text and images combined, our total data consumption as of today sits at a hair over 3TB. Up to now, we've been hosted on the servers of a profitable company that has been behind our cause. Sadly, they're unable to support us in this way going forward, and the hosting plans within our budget won't allow storage of anywhere near that amount of data. We've accepted that we'll have to do a fresh install sans posts, but I'd like to keep the text of our previous posts i…
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so is it possible to add commerce fields to registration form without making them purchase something? by commerce fields i mean name address number etc.
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